What are fattening rooms?

Can anyboby help me?.

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The Fattening Room is an aged old tradition of the Efik people of Calabar, which has been greatly modified for today's generations. This ancient tradition is the training given to young women while they are in seclusion to prepare them for marriage and womanhood.

Gosh, never heard of that.

thank you very much.

any more about that?.